A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked store of our reading experience.

We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.

The best types of problems are those that seem harder at first than when you think about it.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

I don’t believe in fate, because I’m not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

We seem to be made to suffer. It’s our lot in life.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

Ladies seem very intrigued by a guy who is ultra confident and acts like he doesn’t need you.

I think when you’ve been exposed to the Creator of the universe, then the federal government doesn’t seem very powerful.

As far as I’m concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world… which doesn’t seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous...

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.

Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates – but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem...